World’s first web page to turn 25 in August 2016

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The first web page, predecessor of the current World Wide Web, which was an integral part of the intranet facility of the European Organisation for Nuclear Reseach (CERN) in Geneva, will turn 25 in August this year.

The ‘Father of Wesbites’ – info.cern.ch by Tim Berners-Lee was built and made available for public browsing nearly 25 years before in August, 1991.

Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN (also known to house the largest machine on the planet Large Hadron Collider (LHC) intended to explore the horizons of particle physics) invented the World Wide Web (www) in 1989.

The first website was hosted in Berner-Lee’s NEXT computer at CERN. The website described the fundamentals of web, how to access information and how to host an individual server. With a vision to restore the first website, CERN reinstated the original address of the website in 2013.

CERN’s World Wide Web was first introduced to the public domain on 30 April,1993. The subsequent edition of www was made available with an open license so as to maximize dissemination.

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